Genomic analysis finds no evidence of canonical eukaryotic DNA processing complexes in a free-living protist

oleh: Dayana E. Salas-Leiva, Eelco C. Tromer, Bruce A. Curtis, Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist, Martin Kolisko, Zhenzhen Yi, Joan S. Salas-Leiva, Lucie Gallot-Lavallée, Shelby K. Williams, Geert J. P. L. Kops, John M. Archibald, Alastair G. B. Simpson, Andrew J. Roger

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-10-01

Deskripsi

The mechanisms for replicating and segregating DNA are highly conserved across eukaryotes. A comparative genomic analysis of a free-living protist finds a surprising lack of protein complexes involved in these processes, suggesting that the organism uses alternative mechanisms to process DNA.